Was lovely to see you all back together, and in the Eriba which i thought you had sold. My favourite bit is the cooking with Will as ive said many times before. But i got to say how you are all so slim/normal body type with them portion sizes beats me! I love my food but i could not eat them platefuls! Anyway was great to see you all again and look forward to seeing you again maybe later in the summer! Best wishes!

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hi Michael, we decided not to sell and the tipping point was the availability of more affordable and closer storage. On portion sizes, we eat very little during the daytime so what you see is like dog style feeding :) We will be doing more videos during the summer but some may be camping, which we have a new set up and looking forward to showing it to you all.

Well done. You made the best of a bad situation. We used to have an Eriba and they are heavier than they look. You were let down by the campsite in my opinion. They know how wet it can get and yet they let people sink. We switched to a van and wild camped after similar experiences 👍

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Yes, the site could have helped a bit more, however we should have not booked grass either. I understand what you mean about the Van, as we have invested in an Air Tent, which fits around the Landcruiser, so actually we will be sleeping in that when there's just two of us. Thats our nearest thing to van life but on sites and only investing a bit more for the tailgate tent. We will be using that beginning of June at the Re-Kindle Festival in Lincs.

so glad you are keeping the Eriba, we enjoy watching your videos.

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Chris.

Glad yous kept your caravan we were missing you guys on your travels👍

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Yeah we are glad too. Just couldn't swap the LC for a VW Van either. Also, just been told we can take the Eriba to the Re-Kindle festival in 8 weeks time. We will show you that too.

Glad you’re keeping Beatrice. I enjoy your Eriba adventures

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Graham.

Great to see you in your Eriba, we have the same model, the only weakness we have found is the bed supports bent (we are not fat 😂) and crippled our backs ! We have made 2 supports for the poles which has solved it 👍

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hi Andy, we are experiencing something similar in that the bed is tilting towards the centre. Considering a third middle support.

God!!!! What an experience. Thankfully you had your son who seems a lovely boy. Well done for getting out of that quagmire!! Xx

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hi Jackie, the previous video was worse. William is very well mannered and is liked especially on this channel. We just seem to have had one storm after another for the last 6 months.

Well said that man 👍

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Cheers.

happy you've decided to keep the Eriba mate! Ive just sited mine for the summer, 2k for 8 months including electric.

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

I know that some sites put them into storage for you and then take it out from a phone call onto a pitch for you. The Eriba is the cheapest type of holiday whilst retaining some level of comfort. We will benefit more once retired and able to tour.

@griswald7156

2 ай бұрын

Where have you sited your eriba ?

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

In Platinum Storage Site.

@gregmather1702

2 ай бұрын

@@griswald7156 my caravan is sited By Marlborough. I believe they offer grass only seasonal pitches for 1K

So pleased to see you keeping Beatrice and posting a new video ! I have a 430 and lucky enough to squeeze in drive so avoid the storage costs . I spent a huge amount re doing drive to make space for it . Looking forward to seeing your summer travels - love seeing Eriba gadgets and things to help us Eribanauts!!

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hi Jane, yes this video has been a long time coming. The weather this winter and spring has been quite bad so far, hence not getting away.

@jane-fw4nh

2 ай бұрын

@@whereveraway I’m wirral based and that’s why I’ve kept my camc membership as their year round sites are much better in the winter, though I wouldn’t go near them in school hols

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Oh we used to be members of that but could never get a booking at weekends.

@jane-fw4nh

2 ай бұрын

@@whereveraway go for the CLs , I’m full time working so also need weekends

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

@Jane CLs have been mentioned before. Not sure if you have to be a Club member though for those I will look into it.

Did wonder why I had seen nothing from Eriba Away. Our storage fee has jus gone up £780 half year. We are now looking at extending the drive at home to accommodate it as storage fees around the London area are getting ridiculous 🤬🤬

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

That’s expensive. You could also consider putting it on a site permanently and visit it whenever and tour as you like. It would need to be a site which you like though. At least you would get use out of it included in the site fee.

Very interesting regarding mixing using the Eriba and tent camping.I always think of using my Eriba as "camping" but I would like to alternate it like you guys.My wife is not keen though! We are trying to pick out good CLs with at least one shower and rejoined CAMC just for that. Your Eriba videos are great, always interesting and a bit "quirky" ( never knew acountants could be quirky Gary....) Really glad you are keeping the Eriba.Campervans are overpriced, even more so than caravans.

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hi Hayden, we are thinking use the Eriba for 2 or more nights over and the Tailgate Tent for single nights away. We don't do things for the camera, instead we do what we are doing with or without the camera and film as we go, which makes for more varied content. Van Life is a lower quality existence than Eriba life.

@heydenharrison143

2 ай бұрын

@@whereveraway That last sentence brought a smile to my ugly old "mush".

Glad to see you’ve decided to keep the Erika.

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Yes and more videos will come.

We're away every month in our caravan and like others going about the countryside so think you've made the right choice, we've been doing it for 50 years now, ps. We're away to the Highlands for a couple of weeks👍

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hi Robert, yes sometimes there is a bit of bouncing around with ideas and thoughts before settling into the right decision. Enjoy the highlands and watch out for the storms of this week. Hopefully by the weekend things should have settled down.

Good news about the new storage site, we pay about the same.👍

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

It makes all the difference when the storage is more reasonably priced.

Hi Gary, what are the sides and front you use with your Thule canopy?

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hi Mark, it's called the Thule Residence. You have to order the correct type for the Eriba based on the part number on the front inside of the canopy.

Pleased you are keeping the Eriba, did you get any sensible offers for it ? Amazing what a difference low renge and diff locks make. My Volvo XC70 is AWD but i have no control over the system, not been tested in mud even though we have had it 7 years

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hi Frank, no sensible offers, only 1 viewing by someone who hadn't sold their own. Its important to have front to rear diff lock and to be able to disable the anti slip control.

Bad luck with the weather. I never go to those mickey mouse sites always book a decent professional caravan site on hard standing might cost a small big more but well worth it!

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Yes I agree regarding proper sites for the caravan. A lot of the sites are over charging now. That site was £30 per night and was not worth the money in any weather, even on a hard standing. For one night tent camping it doesn't matter as much in good weather, as grass and a toilet will do and is much cheaper. We will be doing the camping this year and are set up for that too. On PitchUp there are a lot of the Mickey Mouse sites which are over charging.

@TomRyall3

2 ай бұрын

@whereveraway Well I suppose you haven't as much choice in rural areas the sites are going to be small anyway but I think they could have tried to put you on a bit of hardstanding somewhere around the place people running these places have no interest in helping out their customers.

@griswald7156

2 ай бұрын

I look for a squeaky clean amenity block with powerful showers,an honesty shop…big sky pitches ,double entrance drives..i avoid big trees threatening my pitch,i dont want to be trapped in my bed in a storm,and i dont want to be next to the bins or the gas tank or the black waste or grey waste disposal point… And fair pricing..and if you break the laws of decency ..dog fouling /spitting/ car blocking you in /silly parking,the management throw you off…a place you can enjoy without being bullied by rednecks..i want the management to look after me if rude campers are about…its not up to me to control the mob ..thats how he earns his money…im a paying guest..im well behaved ,i went to a strict site in Plymouth once…if anybody was anti social…the manager sorted it out…it was lovely..im all for strict sites…with managers with cohones…there are too many that take your money.and forget you….it should be a given if you can’t take the conditions and you have to leave…here’s your money owing sir.see you soon ..bonne voyage..you shouldn’t have to ask…

I thought the Eriba was gone ? And National Trust was in…Eriba are fabulous….we love our 430….i recommend a KART ultimate jockey wheel though…if you have a problem…

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hi, we decided to keep the Eriba but mix our trips between caravanning and camping for shorter stays.

@simondelaney1536

2 ай бұрын

Great to have you all back in the Eriba, best Caravanning vlog on KZread.

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Oh thanks for the compliments. With all the efforts put in I would have thought we would have 5000 subscribers by now, but maybe the Eriba has a small market interest. It seems to be all van lifers nowadays, living in car parks and lay-bys.

@griswald7156

2 ай бұрын

@@whereveraway have a look at the Downs in Clifton ,Bristol…caravanning is very popular due to the rent increases..

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

We are considering the Cheddar area this summer on the way down to Dorset.

Look at shakedown rock n roll weekend gloustershire, £ 70 each 4 days music n bands from midday thurs to sun night, rockabilly rock n roll, no rules park next to van

@whereveraway

24 күн бұрын

Thanks for the heads up.

You look pretty familiar Are you from leigh or a truck driver Great videos as we are new subscribers 👍

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Born in Leigh met Catherine in Ruebens she’s from Atherton

@antonyadamson7117

2 ай бұрын

I must have seen you somewhere then as I said to my wife I have seen you before somewhere Love the channel 👍

@antonyadamson7117

2 ай бұрын

Question is are you a leigh or Wigan warriors fan 🙈

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the compliments. I will mention your name to Catherine when she gets home in around 30 minutes. She will be checking you out on facey, as she is really good with faces.

@antonyadamson7117

2 ай бұрын

Not a problem As your channel got Facebook so we can like your page

Isnt that a Landcruiser? Should have pulled it easy 😊. We've pulled a car with its caravan attached across a field with ours 😊. The weather was awful this weekend though wasnt it 😢

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

It did pull it easy in the end. Backing up the Eriba it was very slippy though. Fortunately, we had front to rear diff lock and that helped.

@jane-fw4nh

2 ай бұрын

Would it have worked better if you’d driven the Eriba on in a big circle rather than reversing ? I always find that it’s only when reversing that I get stuck

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hi Jane, following getting bogged down before Christmas, we decided to reverse to test how difficult it was to move over the grass. The wheels on the Landcruiser started to spin, so we decided to drive forward again. You can see on the video that the final position of the Eriba is forward of the original tyre tracks. It would have been too risky to just drive on forwards in the hope that we could turn it around and keep traction. I'm still not confident that would have been possible. The grass is on limestone so it does drain very quickly, unlike the other video, where the grass was over clay.

Will you be changing the name of the channel back to Eriba Away now?

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hey, so the channel is to cover different types of breaks away and there is a playlist now called Eriba Away within the channel.

looks like your storage yard is a shitty mess like ours. I have to take two pairs of shoes so I don't have to get into my van or car with filthy shoes from dirt and mud picked up from the storage yard. I wish our drive, although a double one, was a bit longer, to get our 7.5 metre caravan on, although we can get our campervan on. Our storage yard is £470 per year.

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

The storage is part of a multi business farm. The Eriba is parked on stone so not too bad for getting in and out of. Most storage yards are a bit rough. For the price and location it’s as good as we can get.

Have a look at this 2 1/2 ton caravan being pulled by the same car as you have : kzread.info/dash/bejne/fJylkrOsaJDgg5M.html I brought my Eriba over to New Zealand its perfect for here as you can live outside more and use the Eriba for sleeping, (we have a slide out kitchen in our ute), Nice Video!

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Hi Andy, thanks for the link. We actually enjoyed watching that video with the LC towing. Our conditions were a little different as in really boggy with no solid ground whatsoever and we lost traction reversing in rather than driving forward. The front to rear diff lock makes all the difference. Oh the weather where you are is great. Bringing back memories of living in Australia for a while as a Child in NSW. My family were what we call £10 pommes. That was back in 1969 to 1971. Thanks for the compliments on the video.

I’m fed up of shoddy farmers charging £30 a night for crapola , name and Shame that place .what’s worse I’m charged £30 for me in my own whereas at least there’s three of you .

@whereveraway

2 ай бұрын

Pitchup makes it possible for them.